{"title":"Gestural depictions in requests for objects","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This conversation analytic paper analyses requests for concrete objects in settings centered around manual and physical tasks. The analytic focus is on requests designed to involve a gestural depiction. We show that the use of gestural depictions in requests is motivated by material-ecological contingencies that create a need for visually specifying what is requested for. Such contingencies are present in situations in which the requested object is not visible to the participants and in which the participants are in asymmetrical positions to perceive the material environment and ongoing changes in it. In such contexts, gestural depictions are used to visually specify task-relevant features of the requested object to overcome possible obstacles in identifying it. The analysis contributes to multimodal research on requesting by illustrating how material-ecological contingencies and participants’ perceptual access to the immediate physical environment are relevant for how requests are formulated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530924000648","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This conversation analytic paper analyses requests for concrete objects in settings centered around manual and physical tasks. The analytic focus is on requests designed to involve a gestural depiction. We show that the use of gestural depictions in requests is motivated by material-ecological contingencies that create a need for visually specifying what is requested for. Such contingencies are present in situations in which the requested object is not visible to the participants and in which the participants are in asymmetrical positions to perceive the material environment and ongoing changes in it. In such contexts, gestural depictions are used to visually specify task-relevant features of the requested object to overcome possible obstacles in identifying it. The analysis contributes to multimodal research on requesting by illustrating how material-ecological contingencies and participants’ perceptual access to the immediate physical environment are relevant for how requests are formulated.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.
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